作者: Wafa Abu Hatab

Wafa Abu Hatab holds a PhD in Contrastive Linguistics and Stylistics, and is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation at the English Department at Zarqa University, Jordan. She has been teaching English for twenty-five years, and has covered almost all age groups, including teaching English for non-native speakers at schools and undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has published several articles on translation, sociolinguistics and discourse, and has translated two books into English. Her academic interests include sociolinguistics, pragmatics, media discourse, Arabic/English contrastive linguistics, stylistics, semantics, pragmatics, translation, and gesture studies.